Hybris, ancient and modern: ancient Greek lessons in life and leadership
- Date
- Jun 7, 2019
- Time
- 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
- Speaker
- Nick Bouras
- Affiliation
- Douglas Cairns / Mirko Canevaro / Moritz Hinsch / Owen Kelly / Kleanthis Mantzouranis / Eugene Sadler-Smith / Constantine Sedikides / Tim Wray
- Language
- en
- Main Topic
- Sprache, Literatur und Kultur
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- Host
- Antje Junghanß, Bernhard Kaiser
- Description
"While [Theresa] May’s tireless efforts may have been aimed at protecting the Conservative party, they have produced a relentless two-and-a-half-year-long carnival of hubris." (The Guardian, 31 March 2019)
Hubris (or hybris) is, it seems, still on everyone’s lips, used of everything from political recklessness to corporate excess, nearly three millennia since the word first appeared in ancient Greek literature. But what is hybris? Why does the concept appeal so readily to the modern mind? And what can we learn about human behaviour from ancient Greek approaches to this and related concepts that might be of use in modern psychology, politics, and business?
Veranstalter:
Douglas Cairns, Edinburgh (douglas.cairns@ed.ac.uk (mailto:douglas.cairns@ed.ac.uk?subject=Hybris%20Conference%202019))
Dennis Pausch, Dresden (dennis.pausch@tu-dresden.de (mailto:dennis.pausch@tu-dresden.de?subject=Hybris%20Conference%202019))
Organisatorisches:
Programm: pdf (https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/klassphil/ressourcen/dateien/dateien_institut/hybris-tagung/programme.pdf) | Abstracts: pdf (https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/klassphil/ressourcen/dateien/dateien_institut/hybris-tagung/abstracts.pdf)
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Bernhard Kaiser (bernhard.kaiser@tu-dresden.de (mailto:bernhard.kaiser@tu-dresden.de?subject=Hybris%20Conference%202019))
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